Oct 01, 2009 - Sale 2188

Sale 2188 - Lot 50

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) The Elegant Girl; or, Virtuous Principles the true Source of Elegant Manners . . . and a Poem called The Mother. Engraved title with hand-colored vignette by Alais and 11 (of 12) hand-colored copper-engraved plates, 233x335 mm (sheets). Lacks plate number 2. Oblong 4to, contemporary 1/4 calf over boards, wear and rubbing; lower and right margin of Plate 5 restored with acid paper showing offsetting on following plate, blanks and all poem leaves creased, scattered thumb soiling, toning, and several short clean tears. Should be seen. Apparently not in BMC. sold as is. London: S. Inman, [1817]

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"In physical terms, this is probably the most sumptuous hand-coloured children's book of the pre-Victorian period"--Alderson & Moon, Childhood Re-Collected 1994.